Makes Quotes

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, 'That's enough guys?'

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.